NOT MY CONCERN: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Hear me, kinsmen! Hear my lamentations! Those who do what has not been done Shall experience what has not been witnessed. If an ugly vulture Keeps pecking to death its...
PROGRESSIVE DESTINATION: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Driver, you stopped by them calling out In your sugar-coated voice of canvassing For the need for change and development And adequate uncommon mobility That promised a progressive destination. Driver,...
TRADITION (ÀṢÀ): Lawal Segun Musbau
Under the mango tree Smiles greeted their faces The pangs of labour The lady to be be a mother The child has is coming The cries of the pain to...
ONLY A STEP: Prince Kuti Adetoye Olayinka
The very fabric Of this nation, Torn!torn before sewn. Yes!this multicoloured fabric! This nation died, Right before it was born, Crippled right before it won The right to walk like...
SPARE THE VIRGINS: Benjamin Elemide
Let virgins be drunk With gins of truth; As lies intoxicate thousands In pairing with deflowered souls. Stab them in front With customized fonts That they may be saved From...
PRAY TO THE GOD YOU KNOW by Obodokasi Adehtem Agbor
We have come to the hills of Enyi We the embodiment of clay and dust, We the least of the twelve caste Uncovered as we were on our birth Clothed...
SILENT VOICES (AN ORPHAN’S CRY): Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
Silent Voices (An Orphan's Cry) I know the feeling that Juvenile felt When deserted beneath an isolated tree, Do you know that feeling? The fear that gripped souls of those...
HOPE: Oladimeji Babafemi
As rain is not for the dry days So is Hope not for yesterdays. Shall we seek a better past, Swallow memories of full plates emptied fast? Should we murmur...
ÀṢÀ : Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
Àṣà! The mouth piece of our fathers, Why have you been a coward Who ran away humiliated and pale? This valley now belongs to a stranger, Haven't you been abused...
AND THE CLOUDS RECEDED: Stanley Princewill McDaniels
And the clouds receded: Bit by bit it dissolves With the wind on the sky's pew; Spite the contraction of the beams, Sunset resolves The labour of man; after hours...